Web Services

Please keep in mind the University policy regarding commodity servers/services that prohibits any individual or group from running their own web services locally (e.g. physical machine in office, research area, lab, assigned workspace, etc) without the consent of the Information Security Office. This includes collaborative services such as wikis.

The services below are suggested as alternatives provided as common good by the University. If you feel the services below do not meet your required or anticipated prerequisites, please email help@ece.utexas.edu for alternative solutions, such as leveraging fee for service provided by the University.

If you are a student organization, please read Student Organization Web Publishing Options

University Blog Service

The University Blog Service is available for use by faculty, staff, and students. The service uses the WordPress platform. Blogs can be created by, and are available for individuals, groups, projects, or departments.

This service does not meet the FERPA requirements for hosting Confidential data and should not be used for course-related purposes.

Service Description

Accepts UT EID login authentication
ITS maintains security, backups, software updates, etc. at no charge
Easily customize the look of your blog with several pre-determined available themes, including a UT-branded responsive theme optimized for viewing on any screen size
Multiple users with active UT affiliation can have access to update pages
Storage: Each site has a maximum of 250 MB (megabytes) for publishing documents (.pdf, .xls, .ppt, etc.) and multimedia (.png, .jpg, .mov, .wav, etc.). UT Box should be used as a storage location for large documents and media.
Plugins & Widgets: a pre-determine set of plugins & widgets are available to enchance the look and feel or functionality of the site.
Track statistics, including how many people have visited your blog
Web address example: https://sites.utexas.edu/<sitename>
The use of custom @ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu domain/URLs is not available with this service.

Cost

University Blog Service is available at no cost to faculty, staff, and students.

University Blog Service - Help

Example sites

Faculty Member:
http://sites.utexas.edu/jandrews/
https://sites.utexas.edu/mokhtari/
http://sites.utexas.edu/hkim/
https://sites.utexas.edu/shwetadwip/

Research Group:

https://sites.utexas.edu/xiulingli/

https://sites.utexas.edu/etylab/

http://sites.utexas.edu/CRL/

http://sites.utexas.edu/wasserman/

https://sites.utexas.edu/shyamshankar/

UT Web

http://links.utexas.edu/dxbbfe

Web publishing on UT Web is available for colleges, schools, and departments that need to create websites that require Unix-based technologies such as PHP or CGI scripting. Colleges, schools, and departments may provide hosting space to their community members. All users must have a current UT affiliation as faculty or staff to log in to the service.

UT Web users must have experience using Unix-based web technologies such as HTML, PHP, and Apache, and are required to be able to manage files using the Unix command line, SSH or SFTP tools. All UT Web users are expected to know and comply with university standards and policies, specifically those listed at /wiki/spaces/utweb/pages/63865034.

Service Description

The UT Web LAMP stack uses the open-source software packages:

User is responsible for security, infrastructure backup, software updates, file backups, and recovery
Linux-based environment (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
Apache HTTP server
MySQL databases (local installations)
PHP programming language support
Limit storage usage to 10 GB per site
Custom departmental domains are available (i.e., www.sitename@ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu).
Backups: backups are self-managed by the user/owner of the site directory
Unix shell access via UT EID
Access to both Git and SVN version control tools
CGI Scripting

Cost

UT Web hosting is currently available to university departments at no cost.

Example sites

Research Group:

http://lca.ece.utexas.edu
http://slam.ece.utexas.edu/
http://aspires.ece.utexas.edu
http://spark.ece.utexas.edu

University Wiki Service (UWS)

ITS-managed Atlasssian Confluence Wiki Software
Easy-to-use web-based documentation tool
Great for departmental or service knowledge capture and transfer
Able to have multiple contributors with different levels of permission
No customization except for logos
Web address within wikis.utexas.edu name (e.g., wikis.utexas.edu/display/mysite)
EID authentication for wiki contributors
Choose to protect pages with EIDs, or publish publicly available pages for service information
Able to host Category-I (FERPA) data
Centrally funded service (no cost to departments, faculty, staff, and students)

Who can use University Wiki Service

Managing Wiki Space Permissions

Wikis Help - Support - FAQs

Web Services

If you are a student organization, please read Student Organization Web Publishing Options

University Blog Service (WordPress)

UT Web (unix-based)

University Wiki Service

University Blog Service

Cost

Example sites

UT Web

Service Description

Cost

Example sites

University Wiki Service (UWS)

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